Mark Carney basically announcing a bail out for Vancouver and area developers; Too many completed condos sitting empty. Metro Vancouver alone around 2,500 finished units are standing vacant with no buyers. They don't want to sell at a loss, they can't afford to hold those empty units indefinitely. ​We will convert vacant condos into affordable housing. We're going to go use the right financing mechanisms, convert those into affordable housing so people can move in and use that." Greed and horrible municipal planning has led to building overpriced shitboxes that no one wants. Now Carney will reward that with taxpayer dollars instead of letting the market solve itself by bringing the prices down. Absurd intervention. I thought he was an economist??

Illinois just signed the most aggressive bitcoin tax in the US. Starting January 2027, the state will impose a 0.20% tax on the gross value of digital assets exchanged, transferred, or stored for customers. Buy bitcoin? Taxed. Transfer bitcoin? Taxed. Hold with a custodian? Taxed. No profit required. No capital gain. Just moving a digital asset triggers the tax. Move $1M through a bank wire, ACH, or brokerage and Illinois takes nothing. Move that same $1M as a digital asset and the state takes $2,000. There is no comparable tax on stocks, bonds, derivatives, bank deposits, or any traditional financial transaction anywhere in the country. The message to every bitcoin company in Illinois is clear: leave.

Not your keys, not your coins" is the loudest slogan in Bitcoin. So why do most new bitcoiners ignore it? Tonight at 7 PM ET, we're going live with @BITVOLT from Simply Bitcoin, @peruvian_bull, and several Bitcoin Wellians to figure out what's actually going on. Why custodial wins for first-time buyers. What we're getting wrong as educators. And what would actually move the needle. Tune in: nitter.net/i/spaces/1jGXgeVgZOyKZ

A database tied to an ID verification provider exposed 1 billion records across 26 countries Names, home addresses, birth dates, national ID numbers, the exact data used to prove you are “you” Poorly maintained, centralized identity systems eventually become targets..SHOCK!